B7008 crash in West Lothian on 8 September 2005 at 08:57 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B7008 in West Lothian at 08:57 on Thursday 8 September 2005. The 31-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2005
- Thursday, 08:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.81874, longitude -3.52206, in the EH55 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005950007786
- Council area
- West Lothian
- Police force
- Lothian and Borders
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 7008
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 348 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B7008 in West Lothian, 14 June 1994
348 m awayRef 1994950642594
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B7008 in West Lothian, 16 November 2015
382 m awayRef 2015950005281
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the B7008 in West Lothian, 22 July 2017
382 m awayRef 2017950001735
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B7008 in West Lothian, 19 December 2003
465 m awayRef 2003950010703
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B7008 in West Lothian, 16 May 1994
723 m awayRef 1994950537194
Slight
Volkswagen Fox crash on the B7008 in West Lothian, 26 September 2019
753 m awayRef 2019950891157
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2005950007786 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lothian road accident statistics for 2005.